Some pictures of trains at Plumtree station and between Plumtree and Stanton Tunnel.
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A Stanier Black 5 on a special departs for the south in the early 1960's Note the train spotters!
Noel Ingram
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The Up 'Waverley ' Express is pictured between Plumtree
and Stanton hauled by Stanier Jubilee Class 4-6-0 No: 45564
'New South
Wales'. T
G Hepburn - Rail Archive Stephenson
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A Nottingham based Stanier Black 5 No: 44861 on an Up train prepares to leave Plumtree station.
T G Hepburn - Rail Archive Stephenson
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Ex-Western Region Britannia Class No: 70017 'Arrow ' has just passed Plumtree Station heading the Up
'Waverley' towards Stanton Tunnel on June 8th 1952. T G Hepburn, Rail Archive Stephenson
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A Class 8F hauls a northbound iron ore train out of Stanton Tunnel towards Plumtree in May 1964
Unknown
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In the early days of British Railways Stanier Jubilee
4-6-0 No: 45555 'Quebec' lays a smoke screen across the Nottinghamshire countryside as it approaches Plumtree with a Nottingham bound express.T
G Hepburn - Rail Archive Stephenson |
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An unidentified 4-4-0 Compound heads south between Plumtree and Stanton Tunnel in the 1930's
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In BR days, but with LMS on the tender, a Fowler 4F 0-6-0 returns a Great Yarmouth holiday special to Nottingham in 1948, and is pictured between Stanton Tunnel and Plumtree near 117½ MP.
T G Hepburn - Rail Archive Stephenson |
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Test Car Iris
is pictured inside Stanton Tunnel whilst conducting a radio survey into
'Leaky feeder' cables in the mid-1970's Author's collection
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Iris emerges into the light at the south end of
Stanton Tunnel Author's collection |
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A local Melton to Nottingham, departs Plumtree in the 1950's
T G Hepburn - Rail
Archive Stephenson
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70017 'Arrow' again pictured heading south with Plumtree
station in the background - sometime in the early 1950's
T G Hepburn - Rail Archive Stephenson |
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In the late 1980's 90 001 rounds the curve at 117½ MP at the end of an aerodynamic pantograph tuning run. The locomotive and two coaches were propelled by a class 47 locomotive.
Derek Young
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Amey's compact tamper DR 73911 on test near Plumtree in 1999
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In November 1999 Coradia unit 175 002 heads through the curves south of Plumtree on a test run
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175 002 passes the former Plumtree station heading north towards the Edwalton end of the test track in November 1999. Vernon
Roberts
Note that the electricity pylon is still there.
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On 16th July 2001,
a Class 390 'Pendolino' heads north through the curves, heading for Plumtree, with the A606 Nottingham to Melton road in the background.
Andy Royle
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An unidentified Class 390 'Pendolino'
set heads away from the end of the electrification at Plumtree towards Asfordby in early September 2003.
Andy Royle |
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UTU4
top'n'tailed by 37606 and 37612 passes over Bradmore Lane at
Plumtree on Thursday 8th March 2007
Andy Royle
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